David Jones

David Jones (1834–1906) was a British locomotive engineer who served as Locomotive Superintendent of the Highland Railway at the Lochgorm Works, Inverness from 1869 until his retirement in 1896. He is best known for the Jones Goods Class of 1894, the first 4-6-0 in Britain and a design that decisively settled the case for the type as the British heavy goods and mixed-traffic standard.

Born at Manchester on 1 October 1834, Jones was apprenticed at Cowlairs Works on the Edinburgh & Glasgow Railway under William Paton and worked his way northward by way of the Inverness & Aberdeen Junction Railway, joining the new Highland Railway at its formation in 1865. He succeeded William Stroudley as Locomotive Superintendent on Stroudley's move to Brighton in 1869.

His Highland output was distinctive: large outside-cylindered engines on the small loading gauge of his often-curving routes, often fitted with the louvre chimney that became something of a Highland trademark. The 'Skye Bogie' 4-4-0 of 1882, the 'Strath' 4-4-0 of 1892 and the Jones Goods 4-6-0, Britain's first, were the most numerous and characteristic. The first Jones Goods, No. 103, is preserved at the Riverside Museum, Glasgow.

Jones retired in 1896 after a footplate accident and was succeeded by Peter Drummond. He died at Inverness on 2 December 1906.